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ERand
Feb 17, 2011, 04:46 PM
[Appropriate visual would be the spacecraft The Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov from 2010: The Year We Make Contact, movie version of A.C. Clarke's story.]

Specifically, which would be easier on a spacecraft with artificial gravity provided by rotating section(s):
a) a counter-rotating flywheel (or section); or,
b) using gimbaled engines to compensate for the complications in angular inertia.